On Saturday 23 August 2008 11:57, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote, On 23-Aug-2008 5:35: > > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 21:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 08/22/08 18:09, Luis San Martin Rojas wrote: > >>> 2008/8/22 Joris Dobbelsteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>> Dear all, > >>>> > >>>> Is there an easy way to migrate an installation from AMD64 to i386? > >>> > >>> AFAIK it is impossible, or at least a _nasty_ mission > >> > >> Nasty if you want to do in-place migration. > >> > >> But if you have a separate /home partition, and you do a lttle pre- > >> planning like save the list of installed packages, important config > >> files, etc, then reinstalling a firewall shouldn't be difficult. > >> Especially since firewalls are supposed to be minimal beasts. > > > > i.e. dpkg --get-selections >package_list > > > > tar -czf etc.tar.gz /etc > > > > install only a base install of i386 > > > > dpkg --set-selections < package_list > > > > deslect upgrade > > > > tar -xzf etc.tar.gz > > > > This is all off the top of my head, use man to get the exact syntax. > > Looks like what I thought should be done, but maybe there was a simpler > way... I'll will try this shortly...
See my script perhaps. > > Thanks, > > - Joris -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/
mkpkglist.sh
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